Question

I have a child page LoginContent.aspx which contains a login form. If the user logs in he should be redirected to my Welcome.aspx page. But if I press the login button the page just reloads itself, nothing happens.
The codebehind on this page is empty. Both LoginContent.aspx and Welcome.aspx are child forms of the same master page.

<form method="post" action="~/Welcome.aspx">
    Username: <input type="text" name="username" size="15" /><br />
    Password: <input type="password" name="passwort" size="15" /><br />
<input type="submit" value="Login"/></p>
</form>

I know I could use the asp.net login control but I want more control over things.

Answer 1

You can’t have nested form inside aspx page.

UPDATED:

Since ASP.NET webform doesn’t allow us to have multiple form in one aspx page, thus in order to make it works, do the following:

1. Remove the form tag
2. add runat server to
3. the input perform redirect in the server side

.

Username: <input type="text" name="username" size="15" runat=server /><br/>
Password: <input type="password" name="passwort" size="15" runat=server /><br/>
<input type="submit" value="Login" runat=server onclick="submit_onclick" /></p>

And in the code behind:

protected void submit_onclick(object sender, Event e)
{
   // do some auth stuff here
   Response.Redirect("~/welcome.aspx");
}

Hope this will answer your question.. 🙂